Liverpool Echo.UKSeptember 12, 2011Stella McCartney turns 40 with pride in her fashion career and driven by Sir Paul and Linda McCartney's passion

Stella McCartney has defied critics to be a name in her own right. When baby Stella Nina arrived into the world on September 13, 1971, born by emergency caesarean, her dad had just launched a solo music career.A year earlier he had quit the biggest band in the world.As Paul McCartney sat outside the operating theatre, anxiously awaiting his child’s safe delivery, he prayed she would be carried “on the wings of an angel”.